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Threat Response Operations Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Nevada, Reno | |
| 6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map) | |
 Jul 09, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. The Defender Experts for XDR team is seeking a Threat Response Operations Manager to lead efforts in identifying and responding to advanced cyber threats. In this role, you will leverage Microsoft's trillions of security signals to quickly uncover emerging human adversary behaviors, generate high-quality, context-rich alerts, and develop tools and automations that help customers detect and respond to threats faster. You'll also play a key role in driving innovation around detecting sophisticated attacker tradecraft. This is an opportunity to lead within a high-impact team that empowers enterprises to stay ahead of evolving threats through expert detection, investigation, and response capabilities. This position is remote, managing a geographically diverse team, and will require work outside of traditional weekday hours. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesPeople Management: Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model - Embody our culture and values, and practice our leadership principles. Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others. Collaboration: Guides team to work with internal and external parties to deliver service levels to address classes of threats. Advocates requirements for solutions. Manages relationship with third party account management team.Security Incident Response: Guides team to research attempted or successful efforts to compromise systems security and aligns resources to pursue next steps. Manages stakeholder communication appropriately. Coordinates with partner teams as needed to secure data and chain of custody. Collaborates with other security teams to ensure comprehensiveness of analysis and response. Conducts postmortem analysis. Displays strong command and control presence to lead through extremely ambiguous challenging situations quickly and calmly. Monitoring and Detection: Guides team to develop prioritized detection capabilities. Manages internal stakeholder relationships appropriately to maintain awareness. Oversees team in detecting potential or actual intrusions. Ensures team is properly resourced to identify and mitigate intrusions. Drives improvements into first-party products. Leverages and contributes to others' work. Shares best practices and lessons learned across teams.Threat Intelligence and Analysis: Supports team in threat analysis and provides guidance on prioritization of analytical efforts. Guides teams and secures resources and partnerships as needed to address threats. | |